Plans are afoot to finally watch The Dark Knight (assuming we make it out to IMAX before its run ends), so I thought I should at last watch the first Nolan Batman.
It's very good - dark, complex and epic, but none of those to a ridiculous or implausible degree (within the parameters of this genre of film, anyway)...and it hews to generic conventions sufficiently closely (and uses them sufficiently well) that the rather significant digressions from those conventions don't undermine its dramatic impact. Great cast, too, well-used, from Christian Bale down (naturally, I got a kick out of Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon). A good one!
